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A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.
1999 · Directed by Doug Liman · 102 min · Crime · Comedy · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 18 frames
Tagline
Life begins at 3am.
Plot
Around Christmas, Ronna, working overtime at her supermarket job to avoid being evicted, is approached by Adam and Zack to buy 20 ecstasy pills, which they had hoped to buy from her absent co-worker, Simon.
After work, Ronna visits Simon's dealer, Todd, for the pills. Unable to pay the full amount, she leaves her friend Claire with Todd as collateral. Ronna meets with Adam and Zack but grows suspicious of Burke, a stranger accompanying them who presses her for the ecstasy. She flushes the drugs down the toilet and leaves, then steals over-the-counter pills to replace them, helped by Manny, who had covertly swallowed two of the ecstasy pills, unaware of their strength. Ronna gives 20 of the fake pills to Todd. She, Claire, and Manny then attend a rave where she sells the rest of the fake pills as ecstasy.
Todd realizes the pills are fake and pursues Ronna to the rave. Ronna flees, hiding the now incapacitated Manny in an alley and promising to return with her car. Todd confronts her with a gun in the parking lot when she is hit by a car that speeds away, leaving her motionless in a ditch.
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Crew
- Screenplay: John August
- Written by: John August
- Cinematography: Doug Liman
- Edited by: Stephen Mirrione
- Music: BT
- Production design: Thomas P. Wilkins
- Produced by: Paul Rosenberg, Mickey Liddell, Matt Freeman
Cast
- Sarah Polley as Ronna Martin
- Timothy Olyphant as Todd Gaines
- Katie Holmes as Claire Montgomery
- Desmond Askew as Simon Baines
- Jay Mohr as Zack
- Scott Wolf as Adam
- Taye Diggs as Marcus
- William Fichtner as Burke
- Nathan Bexton as Mannie
- Breckin Meyer as Tiny
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Banner Entertainment, Saratoga Entertainment
- Budget: $6,500,000
- Box office: $28,451,622
- Themes: drug dealer, ecstasy, nightclub, rave, coming of age, marijuana, drug dealing, los angeles, california, las vegas, drugs
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